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Enterprise Storage Marketing Guru Regis McKenna Advises Storage Vendors on New Technologies, Interoperability and Marketing “Start small and build,” advises high-tech marketing legend Regis McKenna to new storage companies in an interview with Storage Networking World Online. He said IT companies need to focus more on assuring the success of their initial users or beta […]

Since the advent of electronic commerce, standards bodies have been in search of a lingua franca for business communication. Unfortunately, early efforts such as EDI (electronic data interchange) had a high barrier to entry in terms of cost and complexity. However, a new specification—Universal Business Language—may actually deliver on the common-language promise. More recently, XML […]

NEW YORK CITY—EMC Corp. announced the long-awaited Symmetrix 6.0 high-end storage Monday, called DMX, featuring new any-to-any data paths between its front-end, cache, and back-end connections. Direct Matrix, an upgrade from the current Symmetrix 5.5, holds up to 2,048 Fibre Channel drives, officials of the Hopkinton, Mass., company said. As expected, DMX is cheaper overall […]

When General Electric Co. last fall announced plans to sell its Global Exchange Services business to technology buyout fund Francisco Partners for $800 million in cash and notes, pundits said it marked the official collapse of the hype-inflated first phase of business-to-business e-commerce. Indeed, many exchanges have since folded. But GXS has retained most of […]

Security Czar Plans to Retire Richard Clarke, the presidents top information security adviser, plans to retire within the next month, leaving a power vacuum at the top of the governments security structure at a crucial point in the development of the nascent Department of Homeland Security. Clarke, chairman of the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, […]

IBMs winning bid of $5 billion for a seven-year outsourcing contract from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. on Dec. 30 received a critical boost last summer when bank officials backed away from plans to dole out the deal to several suppliers and decided instead to seek a single provider. Soon after making that call, the […]

With the effects of the SQL Slammer worm still being felt last week and details of its origin still being unearthed, the fact that some of the code seems to have originated with the Honker Union of China raises questions of international geopolitics and computer security once again. There is no clear evidence of politically […]

By 2007, we said one year ago, “No one will be fired for recommending Linux.” Shortening our own timeline by four years, we suggest that an IT buyer might already be fired today for failing to consider Linux. Thats a small step but one of Neil Armstrong caliber. At the end of 2001, Suns Linux […]

Storage component maker Vixel Corp. announced a new version of its InSpeed SOC switch-on-a-chip product last week, promising lower prices and better SAN reliability for customers of midrange storage arrays. The device is a switched-architecture chip that connects individual drives in parallel inside arrays. The new version has 20 ports, versus 12 in previous models, […]

After focusing exclusively on software and midrange hardware last year, storage vendor EMC Corp. is shifting back to high-performance gear with the release of its long-awaited Symmetrix 6.0. EMC will debut the high-end platform Monday at an invitation-only event in New York, according to EMC employees who asked not to be identified. The updated system […]

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Enterprise Storage IBM Grafts Bluefin API to Storage Server IBM isnt passing up a chance to try to steal rival EMCs thunder in the storage sector as it plans today to debut the Enterprise Storage Server Application Programming Interface (ESS API) for its latest high-end storage server. Big Blue has created the ESS API to […]